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[The diversity of animal ethics]
1Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism de la Faculté de droit de McGill University, Day Chancellor Hall, #502, 3644 Peel, Montréal, QC H3A 1W9, Canada. jb.jeangenevilmer@mcgill.ca
Abstract:
Animal ethics is not a set of rules telling humans how to behave when interacting with animals, but an area for research into the moral responsibility of humans towards animals as individuals. The present article studies the subject by examining a number of dichotomies: French humanism and Anglo-Saxon animal ethics, justice vs. compassion, welfarism and abolitionism, and the divide between proponents of animal rights and those who prefer to speak of "interests".
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